After that last posting, it seems as though I might look for something beyond a man's religion for which to vote ...
It may be premature since he has yet to be convicted of lying to the SEC, filing fraudulent tax returns, destroying one of the two major political parties and abusing helpless animals ... BUT ... it will be better in the long run. Do you want to be seeing debating a man through his cell door windows or worse a surrogate like Sarah Palin (the helpless female angle will work against you)? No, of course not! Give Willard (Mitt) Romney a complete pardon for all of his crimes and dorkiness now and the country will be the better for it.
As you are undoubtedly aware, the Higgs Boson appears to have been found over the weekend. The proton smasher (a.k.a. Large Hadron Collider or simply LHC) has isolated what appears to be on the order of a dozen HB particles over there on the border of France and Switzerland. The only question left is a statistical one--is it proof of the existence of the Higgs-Boson to a certainty of five sigmas? Stay tuned for updates . . .
NERVE, a young adult suspense, will be published Fall 2012 by Dial Books. When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian. At first it’s exhilarating–Vee and Ian’s fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. But the game takes a twisted turn. Suddenly they’re playing all or nothing, and the prize may be their lives.
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• State Aid Per Pupil in Average Daily Attendance – 47th
• Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Scores – 45th
• % of Population 25 and Older with High School Diploma – 50th
• High School Graduation Rate – 43rd
• • Percent of Uninsured Children – 1st
• Percent of Children Living in Poverty – 4th
• Percent of Population Uninsured – 1st
• Percent of Low Income Population Covered by Medicaid – 49th
• Percent of Population with Employer-Based Health Insurance – 48th
• Total Health Expenditures as % of the Gross State Product – 43rd
• Per Capita State Spending on Medicaid – 49th
• Health Care Expenditures per Capita – 44th
• Physicians per Capita – 42nd
• Registered Nurses per Capita – 44th
• Average Monthly Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Benefits per Person – 47th
• Teenage Birth Rate – 7th
• Births to Unmarried Mothers – 17th
• Percent of Women with Pre-Term Birth – 9th
• Percent of Pregnant Women Receiving Prenatal Care in First Trimester – 50th
The Gross National Debt |
"The United States is one of the few countries where Congress sets a ceiling on government debt, which creates "periodic uncertainty" over the government's ability to meet its obligations.
"We would reduce our assessment of event risk if the government changed its framework for managing government debt to lessen or eliminate that uncertainty," Moody's analyst Steven Hess wrote in the report.
The agency last week warned it would cut the United States' AAA credit rating if the government misses debt payments, increasing pressure on Republicans and the White House to come up with a budget agreement.
Moody's said it had always considered the risk of a U.S. debt default very low because Congress has regularly raised the debt ceiling during many decades, usually without controversy.
However, the current wide divisions between the House of Representatives and the Obama administration over the debt limit creates a high level of uncertainty and causes us to raise our assessment of event risk."